Do you have interest or hobby outside trading ?, or some jokes and humor for other forumer ? or maybe something else ?,
Well, why don't show it here. Life is NOT all about trading or programming, and so is this topic, and you must participate in this topic ;D.

I have a freeware indicator that paints really useful support and resistance levels on a chart that I want to incorporate into an EA. The problem is that I don't have the source code so I can't use iCustom because I don't know which buffers it uses to paint the lines. I did try to interrogate the...

I was recently looking for some code like new candle but loads at first run then waits for new candle to run indicator faster... and accurate.. But during my tryouts come of wit this solution Time frame independent. Let me share and what you think?...

Hello everybody , I built this basic EA to help me trade , and it has been doing well so far and I thought I would share it with you guys, if it helps you too , let me know! =) . It will give an alert whenever 4H , H1 , M30 and M15 Stochastics are all above 80 or below 20 , it does not place trades...

Thenew MQL5 Community website at http://www.mql5.com keeps developing. Weinvite all of you to make your contribution to this development.
Thenew MQL5is the evolutionary continuation of MQL4. The new language ischaracterized by the support of object oriented programming, by ahigher code execution...

I don't have a problem sending email from my laptop in metatrader in my EA but the cloud while configured the same way will not send mail alerts trigger by sendmail. Anyone encounter this and have a workaround? kind regards.. Neal Russell Vanderstelt

Hello everybody,
While I was studying Technical Analysis I made a lot of Photoshop imagesto show words of wisdom that was said by writers of technical analysis books. Ibuild this thread to share those pictures with you and I hope they could helpyou to find them interesting.
I encourage you also to...

i'm trying to write an EA and i have little problem, the EA calculate some bar's data at the end of every bar i used code below: if (candle1!=iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_M1,1)) {candle1=iTime(Symbol(),PERIOD_M1,1); ....} this code works perfectly every minutes; when i run the EA for first time, EA...

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it).
Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation.
And it was around standard indiocators in...

It is simple trading strategies. m217irr mentioned about it here but I did not understand it in that time. This strategy is very good for the beginners and I started my forex with this strategy some years ago. And not me only. I know that Tartan started with this strategy as well and finally we have...

I want to say that my nick 'newdigital' is not connected with digital filters. But I started this thread to discuss and explain about trading strategies based on the digital filters only. And to understand how to implement those filters. All about digital filters you may find https://www.mql5...

Hi guys, I am looking for a EA/script that places buy and sell market orders on two FX pairs simultaneously - for example buy EUR/USD and sell GBP/USD. I do not want any SL or TP, just to specify the particular symbol to buy and the symbol to sell, and the relevant volume. I am quite new to that,...

This is the thread about books related for stocks, forex, financial market and economics. Please make a post about books with possible cover image, short description and official link to buy (amazon for example). Posts without books' presentation, without official link to buy and with refferal links...

Locked-in Range Analysis (abbr. LRA) is the futures market analysis method, described in the ebook "Locked-in Range Analysis: Why most traders must lose money in the futures market (Forex)" by Tom Leksey, which minimizes an uncertainty in the futures market. LRA is the method of interpreting the...

It is generally accepted in the trading community that there is no Holy Grail. That is a very human and absolutely normal way of dealing with the subject. As many of us know, there are a number of fundamental items in the economy that are fundamentally wrong, but, the human race developed the...

Simple Ichimoku System. Some members remember Ichimoku informational template for Asctrend M5 elite section system thread: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/174756 and new set of this system from this post. It is so called Ichimoku informational template to check market condition on H4/D1 timeframe...

This might work. I learned this from a Forex class, and the teacher showed us this technique. Its relatively simple. Attached is the Keltner Channels indicator. Basically, when the currency crosses the top channel, you buy, and sell when it crosses the top channel on the downside. You sell when it...

Setting the best stop always has been and always will be the bane of traders.
We have all experienced the anger and crazy-making that goes along with setting a stop far from the current price only to be stopped out by ONE pip and then having the price quickly completely reverse and go on to reach...

I was reading up on placing trades using MA's and using other indicators and came across this idea and just started to try it out: In MT4 open 8x daily charts (any major and crosses) add 14 EMA and Heiken Ashi (as supplied with MT4). Buy Signal: When the 14EMA is in an up trend and a white heiken...

S&P 500 January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish ranging within the narrow s/r levels for direction W1 price is located far above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following narrow support/resistance levels for the bullish trend to be resumed...

Bitcoin vs USD January-March 2017 Forecast: key resistance level at 850.15 to be broken for the bullish trend to be continuing Weekly (W1) price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 850.15...

Google April-June 2017 Forecast: weekly ranging to be stated or the secondary correction to be continuing; 853 resistance is the key The weekly shares price is on secondary correctional movement within the primary bullish market condition: the price is located above Ichimoku cloud for the correction...

AAPL Technical AnalysisL daily bullsh with 120.35 resistance to be testing for the bullish trend to be resumed Daily share price is located far above 200 SMA in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing resistance level at 120.35 to above for the bullsh trend to be continuing. If the...

DJIA January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish; resistance level at 19,987 is the key W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing 19,987 resistance lkevel to above for the primary bullish market condition to be continuing. The price is...

Stock Market A To Z: 26 Names, Themes And Trends To Watch (based on the article) A is for Apple "The stock trailed the broader market in 2016, but there may be tailwinds in 2017. Tax reform may include a provision that incentivizes the company to deploy its billions in foreign cash back to...

I've been trading Forex for a year now, and trading crypto for 2 years. I've been waiting for a blockchain based platform to bridge the worlds of traditional assets to cryptographic currencies, and other than Genesis Vision, I'm not seeing anything. Is anyone aware of projects similar to GVT at...

Dax Index January-March 2017 Forecast: flat within bullish with key resistance at 11,649 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 11,485 level to above on close weekly bar with 11,649 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

Bovespa Index Technical Analysis 2016, 10.04 - 17.04: branging bullish with ascending triangle pattern to be formed for the bullish trend to be continuing Daily price is located above 100-day SMA (100 SMA) and 200-day SMA (200 SMA) for the bullish market condition with the ranging within the...

Hi, I was "playing" with hedging to explore possibilities : it's very tempting, since it allows purely & simply to recover from a bad position taken. The risk of these strategies is well-known : lot management. Comes ALWAYS a point, where the margin is stressed, the logical solution being to accept...

i would like to get a clear difference between the effect of orderclose and ordercloseby functions. how is ordercloseby different from orderclose in the way they work and what happens to the opposite order when i use it to close onother order when using ordercloseby

I have an algorithm to develop an EA. The goal is to develop an EA that will never get a margin call, but will always close in profit or with zero loss like grid Martingales do. My problem is I can't afford Freelancers to fully develop it and I would like to have it done before walking the long path...

Hi there, I would be glad if someone could me help out: I want to organize the common/file directory into input and output subfolders, in order to read files there accordingly by my EAs. The manual says "The name of the file can contain subfolders". But it seems that I am missing something there....

Hello, i want to provide a click button in my expert which behaviour is the same as any normal button. So, when mouse is over button and left mouse button pressed, the button should change into pressed state. Unfortunately, i get no such LBUTTON_DOWN event. The next useful event for this...

Hi All .. Firstly, I realise that it's not allowed to discuss Market Place products in the forum, and so I hope it's OK to ask some questions about a product that is not listed in the market yet. I have been running my EA for some time, and it has never crossed my mind to sell it. To cut a long...

hello everyone I was looking for an ea with the technique of the candle idnr4 but I can not find anything, I find it hard to think that anyone has done an ea about this method, being very profitable someone has some links to share by chance for mt4 please?

thank you guys I want to compare the value of the main line and the signal line in MQL5. i was doing like this in MQL4:- if((iStochastic(NULL,0,5,3,3,MODE_SMA,1,MODE_MAIN,1)<iStochastic(NULL,0,5,3,3,MODE_SMA,1,MODE_SIGNAL,1))&&(iStochastic(NULL,0,5,3,3,MODE_SMA,1,MODE_MAIN,0)>iStochastic(NULL,0...

What it is: Below, you'll find my Swiss Army EA. I've designed it so that it can manage orders in your MT4 terminal using a large variety of methods. Features includes breakevens, trailing stops, setting/removing for takeprofits and stoplosses, and many close-out conditions; you also have ability...

Is there any way to know if the EA is running on Strategy Tester? My EA uses the symbolInfo.MarginMaintenance() to make some equations to trade but these values are zero in strategy tester. To work around this problem, I created a parameter to set the margin (to use in strategy tester only) and I...

Dear traders, programmers... I am very disappointed about my trading results, and am in real need of any sort of help, I just want to get my lost money back, which was a total of 8 years of hard work. I appreciate your kind support.

This one is for those that use metatrader 5 Metatrader 5, unfortunately, did some things that hardly are logical. One of the things done by it is that builtin averages (and all the other builtin indicators) are not functions any more. That is as big a nonsense as it can get. Instead of making...

Hi, I searched for weeks but I didn't find a good indicator for swing points, I mean highs and lows, because all indicators have something wrong: repaint, lag, many false signals. I only need an indicator for entry points that is accurate. Does such indicator exist? PS. I found the one attached but...

Hello, I'm using an indicator IXO but using it in EA give serious fast problem in BackTest (is very slow). The indi calculate in Tick and ID0 ...someone can suggest the modification to calculate every candle starting from ID1 (no ID0). The code is easy, I try but I get error. Many thanks. THE CODE:...

//this code attempt to chart out the major SR levels. it's logic are as follow://1. look back say (400 bars). look at all the turning points using fractuals. put into a temp array//2. sort the temp array from low to high. //3. compare each of the SR level, and see if they are close togehter, using...

I'm trying to create a control panel for my indicator based on zigzag. I need to get the first 5 values of the zigzag and the time of these values for the selected timeframe from the panel, which were at the very beginning of the story available (limited number of bars in the settings) First 6...

Some indicators which can be a filter to avoid big losses. If you have a great idea so you need a filter. To avoid any trading in none-trading zone. Please post your filters here. And please find the filter ... let's say ... 4 in one: FATL, SATL, RSTL, RFTL. In one indicator.

Hi all I started this thread to gather in one place the ideas for the next generation of ASCTrend. This is necessary because this new instruments require appropriate testing as they are new. It is not possible to use new instruments in older strategies without verification. So here it is the thread....

Hello All, I have an indicator that is named KBOS. Problem is I can't remember where I found it and in looking at it in the editor there are no names associated with it. I'm trying to find it again and if anyone knows I'd appreciate a response here. Thank you. Terry

Relative Momentum Index: The Relative Momentum Index (RMI) was developed by Roger Altman. It was first introduced in the February 1993 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. The RMI is a variation of the RSI indicator. The RMI counts up and down days from the Close...

Self Optimizing RSI or MFI Trader: This robot optimizes the values it uses for overbought and oversold based on what would have been profitable during the Optimization periods(bars) back. Using the strategy of selling when the index indicator crosses below overbought and buying when the index...

Zig Zag & Fibonacci: One of the best indicators about with a slight tweak to make it less noisy. Shows ZigZag lines to help spot cycles and draws Fibonacci lines to indicate support and resistance levels. ‌ Author: Brett Jones

DSL - DEMA MACD: Variation of a long known and useful MACD indicator. This version is using: DEMA (Double Exponential Moving Average) instead of using EMA (Exponential Moving Average) for MACD calculation, DSL (Discontinued Signal Lines) and instead of using one signal line uses two. That...

New article Triangular arbitrage has been published: The article deals with the popular trading method - triangular arbitrage. Here we analyze the topic in as much detail as possible, consider the positive and negative aspects of the strategy and develop the ready-made Expert Advisor code. The...

Multi Timeframe Bollinger Bands: This is a multi timeframe indicator for Bollinger Bands. With it you can plot the Bollinger Bands of the higher timeframes without changing the current chart. This allows you to more clearly understand the price context by seeing the levels of the other timeframes on...

Get M1 OHLC data for MetaTrader 4 backtesting: Usually most brokers do not provide M1 data over 3 months in MetaTrader 4, but they provide M1 data over 3 years in MetaTrader 5. So we can use this tool to obtain the M1 data in MetaTrader 5 tester and save the data into .hst file for...

DSL - TEMA MACD: Variation of a long known and useful MACD indicator. This version is using: TEMA (Triple Exponential Moving Average) instead of using EMA (Exponential Moving Average) for MACD calculation DSL (Discontinued Signal Lines) and instead of using one signal line uses two....

Hi all, is there any engulfing pattern indicator that can provide notification to my smartphone where there is a engulfing pattern alert and it shows and draws fibo everytime there is engulfing pattern forming. If there is links to buy it would be great.

Just looking for some coding help. I designate shortname for indicator I want to be able to delete: int init() { IndicatorSetString(INDICATOR_SHORTNAME,"PA");...return(0); } Then for the indicator that will be deleting the one above, code is below. I assume all I should need to do is to drag the...

New MetaTrader 4 Platform build 1090 The MetaTrader 4 platform update will be released on May 19, 2017. The new version fixes some bugs in the operation of the client terminal. The update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.

Hello , this EA is shwoing great result but i am sure that it needs some tuching tunning ( i guess playing around with its codes or adding others ) Please have a look at it i am sure it worth it - i hope so - attached is a forward test of this EA for just 5 houres or less ( when ever i get good...

When I debug a MT4 program (currently a script), I after some short time are thrown out of the debugging process and have to start new (Soft-Key "Start debug"). At this point "Stop debugging", "Step into" etc. are inactivated (of course). This seems to be correlated with the frequence of market...

Hello everybody, i've got the following problem when testing ea: The result in optimization and testing without optimization are different (same parameters). I think that come from the spread not taken into consideration in optimization mode. can somebody could confirm or indicate me the origin of...

Hello Members, Looking for a simpler logic to find Lower High under a certain time limit. Please see the picture for better understanding. In this case, I can find Highest point with iHighest Easily. Highest_barindex = iHighest(NULL,0,MODE_HIGH,80,1) But how to find the Lower High point X? Thank...

Hello everyone, I have been trying to use a button to switch between charts in the watch window. I can switch charts but the previous one isn't being removed/deleted. void ChangeChart() { CurrentSymbol = SymbolName(Next_Symbol,false);Next_Symbol++; Close_Chart =...

I have two existing trades that I am trying to modify. At the time of modification, the new order parameters are as shown below. I get Modify error 3 (ERR_INVALID_TRADE_PARAMETERS). Can't tell why. For the buy-stop order below, the OrderPrice is higher than current Ask by more than the...

I am making an indicator to identify tops and bottoms of price movement and connect them just like the zigzag indicator actually there are three buffers: tops[] , bottoms[],and zigzag[] which is the combination of tops and bottoms my problem is that sometimes the same candle qualifies to be have a...

I know this has to have been answered before, but I can't find it in the forums... So on with it. How do I make my indicator update every tick? I have an indicator that draws an arrow above and below a candle that is an inside bar. The problem is that when a new candle forms, it is an inside bar,...